Attempts to Establish Hard Caps on West Coast Drift Gillnet Fishery Questionable ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — After almost a decade of back-and-forth rule makings and court decisions, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently released a rule that would establish hard caps on the West Coast drift gillnet fishery. While hard cap policies ensure that fishing activities halt before irreparable damage is done to a special status species, hard caps only work if they are strictly enforced and that is not what this rule seems to do.

Revealed: illegal tuna fishing rife around Malta’s ‘farms’ Rife illegal fishing of stray wild tuna that lurk around tuna ranching operations some six kilometres off Marsascala’s shore, at the reef known as Is-Sikka Tan-Nofs, may account for the illegal catch of thousands of tuna annually, according to sources who spoke to The Shift.